From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 23 16:28: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C9CC114A6 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:27:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA20109; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:57:53 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA51742; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:57:51 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990224105750.A93492@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:57:50 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: chris/reman , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM detection problems References: <36D23C91.F39053E9@student.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <36D23C91.F39053E9@student.unsw.edu.au>; from chris/reman on Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 04:28:49PM +1100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 23 February 1999 at 16:28:49 +1100, chris/reman wrote: > Hi, > > I have sent this to hackers and questions just in case. Please don't. Read the charters and http://www.lemis.com/questions.html. You should only have sent this message to -questions. > I have one hard drive which is master first controller, I have a pioneer > A04s 32x cdrom as a slave on the secondary controller. > > I insert FreeBSD 2.2.6 CDROM, ATAPI boot works and sysinstall is started > from the CDROM. Go straight into probe. wd0 is detected along with the > hard drive. however when we get to wd1 it is not detected at all. I > have tried setting flags, rebooting from dos etc etc. It detects under > linux and win95. > > Abit BH6 > celeron 333a > 128mb ram > ibm deskstar hdd > CL banshee > NE2000 PCI network card > AWE64 > > I have searched the PR's and the mailing list search is not available. > Is this just related to the BH6? do I need to upgrade to >2.2.6. The > cdrom has worked fine on my old TX motherboard and under 2.2.6 and 2.2.7 I would strongly suggest trying 3.1. You don't need to install it: if you download the boot floppies and try to boot, you should be able to see whether it finds the CD-ROM drive. If not, you should enter a bug report with all details, in particular the chip set of your mother board and the exact description of your CD-ROM. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message